Maps and screenshots thread

[DerVVulfman]

Adding backgrounds into a menu screen isn't that hard. You basically create a blank sprite at the beginning of the system (including the picture filename of course), and disposing it when you exit the menu. At the same time, I made all the windows in the menus totally transparent so you do not see the windowskins and borders. I use a module containing a list of pics from which to choose my background ('Skill-Hairy","Skill-Scaly","Skill-Marble", etc). Moghunter did the whole 'background-image-for-menu' thing years ago and I've studied his basic technique which was quite simple. Rewrote them to make them cleaner of course.

The hard part was to integrate that with my Menu in Maps system. That system puts all your menus straight into the MAP system itself and eliminates your need for a main menu (ie... press 'I' for Items menu, press 'S' for Skills). You need a compatible keyboard script and a hella lot of tweaking, but what do you expect?